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saying to them, ‘Come on, it's all right. Come on, we'll get through. Come on, we'll swim this river.’ Didn't you ever swim against the tide when it seemed as though it was out of the question? Some stronger swimmer says, ‘Come on, we'll make the point.’ Then you go on. Your heart's already pounding, but you still go on. If you were alone, you might just stop and drown out there. This is the same thing.”

“Oh, human beings are not as superficial as that.” he said to me. “The situation is very bad.”

We parted, and then he turned back and he said, “Miss Perkins, the date of the trouble is June 15th. It won't go beyond June 15th. Something will happen?

“What do you mean, Mr. Berle? What's going to happen?”

“I am getting my family out of the city and out into the deep country. I advise you to do the name well before the 15th of June. The cities will not be safe.”

Well, that was the darndest comment I had ever heard. I remember I thought, “What does he know that I don't know? Where does he get his information?” He spoke as though he thought a violent physical revolution was about to take Place in which the sans culottes would murder all of the rest of us and our children in their beds. That was the tone of voice in which he delivered this. The sense of impending disaster was considerable.